Royal Mail

LONDON (SHARECAST) – Property group Great Portland Estates (GPE) has been giving its cheque book a bashing, buying up properties in London’s West End. More: continued here

Great Portland buys Royal Mail building freeholdShareCastGPE will pay Royal Mail Group (RMG) £120m in cash for its freehold interest and has leased back the entire site to RMG until June 2013, with GPE receiving total net rent of £4.6m. After that, RMG will vacate the building, at which point …

08 September. Updated: 08 September 16:49 HOMEOWNERS in Rednal will see changes made to their postal service as Royal Mail alters its delivery schedule in the village. More: continued here

Official stamp of approvalYorkshire PostWHILE Hillary E Holt (Yorkshire Post, September 7) can put what he likes, providing that it is legal, at the top of his letters, the Royal Mail only requires three pieces of information to deliver a letter, none of which refer to a historic judicial … …

Drastic action needed to save US postal service from foldingHerald Scotland… waiting in line at my local branch to pick up or send packages, I've had time to memorise the text, and to consider the chasm between its proud rhetoric and the dysfunctional reality of an organisation that makes the …

Royal Mail bans stamp sales after price hikeMilngavie TodayMorag Turnbull, Royal Mail Group external relations manager, said: “No one should be paying more than the face value for a stamp. “Milngavie Post Office is based in a retail shop which operates independently from the post office. … More: continued here

Web fuels synthetic drug explosionMinneapolis Star TribuneThe site ships merchandise through British Royal Mail. But the computer the company used to conduct online sales this summer was actually located in a rural area of central France, according to its Internet Protocol address. …and more » More: continued here

Risk of identity fraud rises with house movesThe IndependentPeople under 35 are moving home more frequently than their parents and grandparents and this is opening them up to identity fraud, according to a study of 1000 under-35s by the Royal Mail's Redirection Service. The National Fraud Authority says … More: …

People under 35 are moving home more frequently than their parents and grandparents and this is opening them up to identity fraud, according to a study of 1,000 under-35s by the Royal Mail’s Redirection Service. The National Fraud Authority says identity fraud costs the UK £2.7bn. More: continued here

Making an oceanic home for sailorsRoyal Gazette“On the morning of Thursday 27th January 1927, the crew of the brand new pilot gig Ocean Queen II put Pilot Henry Tucker aboard the incoming Royal Mail Steam Packet Avon, and disappeared into stormy, foggy weather off Kitchen Shoals. … More: continued here